Category: Fill Of The Week

Here’s this week’s drum fill: This week’s drum fill is fairly straight forward. We’re playing 16th notes on the snare and throwing in the occasional open hi-hat. It’s a very simple yet effective drum fill. Let’s get to learning! Learn The Fill There’s not a great deal to this fill, we’re playing 16th notes on…

Groove of the week #45 was in 7/8. Here’s a fill in 7/8 to go with it. We’re back using our old friend the 5-note grouping for this fill. We’ve used 5-note groupings several times; the last time was Fill Of The Week #33 where we used it in 8th note triplet form. This time…

It’s fill of the week time! Let’s get tripletted! This week’s fill has an eighth note triplet base, but we’re sneaking some sixteenth notes in to make it sound awesome. We last played a fill like this way back on fill of the week #11. You might want to check that one out after this…

Here’s drum fill of the week #43: This week’s drum fill is a 16th note accent pattern. Accent patterns always sound musical and there are many ways you can move them around the kit to create something new. We last messed around with accents on Fill Of The Week #10; you might want to check…

Hat, Click, Kick, Repeat – Fill Of The Week #42: This week’s drum fill takes a common three note pattern – Right, Left, Kick – orchestrates it around the kit and adds some 32nd notes to spice it up. Let’s check it out. Learn The Fill Let’s start by looking at the 16th note pattern…

Para-Para-Diddle-Para-Para-Diddle-Para-Diddle. That’s the key to this week’s fill. Check it out: Fill Of The Week #41 uses the Double Paradiddle and the Paradiddle to create an awesome sounding fill. If you like this fill, we did something similar on Fill Of The Week #27 with the Paradiddle-Diddle. You might want to check that out too.…

It’s the first Fill Of The Week of 2020 and, coincidentally, this fill has 20 notes in it. Check it out: This fill of the week uses 2 beats of 16th notes and then 2 beats of 16th note triplets. I’ve always liked the way moving from 16th notes to 16th note triplets sounds. It…

Let’s get the paradiddle out for a spin around the kit for this week’s fill of the week! The paradiddle is one of the most useful rudiments in the drummer’s toolbox. It can be accented and orchestrated in many ways to create musical ideas. The last time we messed with the diddle family was on…

Let’s learn how to lose a band in 28 notes or less. Fill of the week #38 uses a 7 note pattern, we’ve seen 7 note patterns in other fills; try fill of the week #35 for another example. In this fill, the 7 note pattern is played four times over 16th note triplets, which…

Let’s flam our way through fill of the week #37. Fill of the week #37 features flams split across drums and some hand foot co-ordination that may be a little tricky. Let’s get learning! Learn The Fill Let’s start learning this fill by looking at what the hands are doing. Here’s the basic rhythm that…